User:Haakad1/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
(Briefly explain why you chose it, why it matters, and what your preliminary impression of it was.)

I am choosing this article because I believe that it will be a good way to evaluate recent tensions that have emerged between the Islamic community and the anti-Muslim actions of the BJP in India. The amendment to the Citizenship Act (1955) was intended to make the process of gaining citizenship more possible and plausible for religious minorities, but this explicit disenfranchisement of the Islamic communities in these other countries makes this essentially a hallmark of anti-Islamic sentiment. I think exploring the initial ideas behind the act (making sure that marginalized minorities in other countries were able to seek refuge in India) is important, but I should also be able to see how this tool has been essentially weaponized in order to truly disparage the experience of a specific community. It's almost as if the amendment is saying that the Muslim communities in these other countries are not worthy of support from India, which parallels the sentiment that is seen within India itself. I think this article is useful and complete, which will help me get a strong understanding of the initial goals of the first act, as well as the implications of the amendment.

Evaluate the article
(Compose a detailed evaluation of the article here, considering each of the key aspects listed above. Consider the guiding questions, and check out the examples of what a useful Wikipedia article evaluation looks like.)

The lead section of this article is very informative and thorough, but it doesn't feel like it is too long or in-depth. It provides a good overview and provides me with some background information that will allow me to better navigate the article. It takes on a neutral perspective by bringing up explicitly the implications of the amendment on Muslims and other persecuted communities, while also discussing its commentary and the governmental response to this commentary. The article has some images and figures, all around the sections that are about the protests against the amendment. I don't know if this provides the best understanding of the multifaceted nature of the act, and may lead to a skewed representation of the act's effects. The article is very well-organized and written, which makes it easy to navigate and understand. Because the topic itself is recent, a lot of the citations that are necessarily relevant (i.e. not related to the first iteration of the act) are all very recent too. I think the article's main strengths are in the explanation of all of the implications of the act, but I think it can be improved by providing more in-depth analysis of how different countries responded to the amendment. I think this is an interesting aspect of the article, but it is perhaps under-implemented.